Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is the day for ghost stories so I thought I would share one with you! This is a story that someone told me in Elementary school and I always thought it was a fun one.

Yellow Ribbon

Jane wore a yellow ribbon around her neck everyday. And I mean
everyday, rain or shine, whether it matched her outfit or not. It
annoyed her best friend Johnny after awhile. He was her next door
neighbor and had known Jane since she was three. When he was young, he
had barely noticed the yellow ribbon, but now they were in high school
together, it bothered him.

“Why do you wear that yellow ribbon around your neck, Jane?” he’d ask her every day. But she wouldn’t tell him.

Still,
in spite of this aggravation, Johnny thought she was cute. He asked her
to the soda shoppe for an ice cream sundae. Then he asked her to watch
him play in the football game. Then he started seeing her home. And come
the spring, he asked her to the dance. Jane always said yes when he
asked her out. And she always wore a yellow dress to match the ribbon
around her neck.

It finally occurred to Johnny that he and Jane
were going steady, and he still didn’t know why she wore the yellow
ribbon around her neck. So he asked her about it yet again, and yet
again she did not tell him. “Maybe someday I’ll tell you about it,”
she’d reply. Someday! That answer annoyed Johnny, but he shrugged it
off, because Jane was so cute and fun to be with.

Well, time flew
past, as it has a habit of doing, and one day Johnny proposed to Jane
and was accepted. They planned a big wedding, and Jane hinted that she
might tell him about the yellow ribbon around her neck on their wedding
day. But somehow, what with the preparations and his beautiful bride,
and the lovely reception, Johnny never got around to asking Jane about
it. And when he did remember, she got a bit teary-eyed, and said: “We
are so happy together, what difference does it make?” And Johnny decided
she was right.

Johnny and Jane raised a family of four, with the
usual ups and downs, laughter and tears. When their golden anniversary
rolled around, Johnny once again asked Jane about the yellow ribbon
around her neck. It was the first time he’d brought it up since the week
after their wedding. Whenever their children asked him about it, he’d
always hushed them, and somehow none of the kids had dared ask their
mother. Jane gave Johnny as sad look and said: “Johnny, you’ve waited
this long. You can wait awhile longer.”

And Johnny agreed. It was
not until Jane was on her death bed a year later that Johnny, seeing
his last chance slip away, asked Jane one final time about the yellow
ribbon she wore around her neck. She shook her head a bit at his
persistence, and then said with a sad smile: “Okay Johnny, you can go
ahead and untie it.”

With shaking hands, Johnny fumbled for the knot and untied the yellow ribbon around his wife’s neck.
And Jane’s head fell off.

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